Corpses Quotes - Page 16

• No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Simple, People

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• Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.

  Andre Simon

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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• If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Fascination, Saint

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• Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.

  P. C. Cast

  Married

  P.C. Cast (2009). “Divine by Choice”, p.25, LUNA

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• One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Dragons, Jars

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.790, Bantam

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• Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

  Ilona Andrews

  Opportunity, Giving, Promise

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.100, Penguin

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• Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Madness, Beast

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• These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.

  Ian Mcewan

  Memories, War, Sight

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• A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Dog, Cancer, Night

  Yasunari Kawabata (2017). “House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories”, p.12, Vintage

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• She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

  John Green

  Broken, Black, Skins

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.40, Penguin

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• All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

  Dean Koontz

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

  Dean Koontz (2010). “What the Night Knows (with bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun): A Novel”, p.70, Bantam

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• Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

  Tillie Olsen

  Doe, Results, Occasional

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• The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Father, Frozen, Wrecks

  'The Wreck of the Hesperus' (1839)

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• Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Editors, Brain, Firsts

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.

  Doug Stanhope

  Waiting, Parent, Wallets

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• All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses

  Grant Morrison

  Dream, Children, Women

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• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Memories, Impact, Never Change

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• We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

  Paul Brooks

  Life, Attitude, Law

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• If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery in it, because it cannot die anymore. You think it has no mystery because life has disappeared? No, it has no mystery because now it cannot die anymore. Death has disappeared, and with death automatically life disappears. Life is only one of the ways of death's expression.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Thinking, Expression

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• I want to be a pretty corpse.

  Eva Braun

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• Here richly, with ridiculous display,
  The Politician's corpse was laid away.
  While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
  I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Ridiculous, Politician, Acquaintance

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

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• Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

  Victor Hugo

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• ... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.

  Brigham Young

  Long, Envy, Funeral

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• For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

  Saul Williams

  Mother, Children, Father

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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